Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Who loses a day loses life.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.